RSS Etc.

PBS.org Media Project Launches This Week - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sat 14 Jan 2006 04:03 AM PST

MediaShift, the new PBS.org project from my former OJR colleague Mark Glaser, is slated for a Wednesday launch. The tagline: “your guide to the digital media revolution.” (Only a placeholder…

WashingtonPost.com Extends Free Window For Archives - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 22 Dec 2005 07:14 PM PST

While The New York Times Company folds online archive access into its premium TimesSelect and a possible Globe.com subscription service, WashingtonPost.com is opening the gates wider for free. The site,…

Industry Moves: News Corp. Exec Guthrie Joins VeriSign Board; Baker New MD, Sky Interactive - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 21 Dec 2005 12:13 PM PST

Michelle Guthrie, CEO of News Corp.’s STAR Group Ltd., has joined the VeriSign Board of Directors. VeriSign CEO Stratton Sclavos: “Consumer demand for real-time information and entertainment over mobile and…

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Industry Moves: Co-Founder Scott Johnson Leaves Feedster - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 18 Dec 2005 07:13 PM PST

Feedster is down to one co-founder in residence. Scott Johnson, co-founder and CTO, has left the company; FranÃ§ois Schiettecatte remains as chief scientist. Scott Rafer took his leave as CEO…

Syndicate SF: - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 14 Dec 2005 11:14 AM PST

Sun’s Schwartz@Syndicate: Intranets are gonna die

Syndicate SF: Allaire Keynote; Learning From Disasters; Feedburner - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 13 Dec 2005 10:13 AM PST

Uneven mix of reports and announcements coming in from the first full day of Syndicate SF. -- Jeremy Allaire Keynote: “Any content owner can elect to syndicate their programming through…

Syndicate SF: Searls: Static Web Meets Live Web - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 13 Dec 2005 07:13 AM PST

Doc Searls posted his opening remarks before Syndicate kicked off this morning: “On one side is the Static Web of sites that we architect and build and construct, at locations…

RSS Firm Attensa Gets $9 Million Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 05 Dec 2005 10:13 AM PST

Attensa, a Portland, OR-based RSS network and delivery firm, has received $9 million in second round funding from RSS Investors, a fund focused on information aggregation and other web technologies.…

RSS Ad Networks From Feedburner, Feedster - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 08 Nov 2005 12:12 PM PST

RSS vendors Feedburner and Feedster have moved further into RSs advertising efforts: -- Feed management firm FeedBurner is launching a new RSS ad network, which it’s been quietly testing for…

Google, AOL Expand Video Options - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 26 Oct 2005 06:12 AM PST

Yahoo has the Hollywood connections but Google Video gets a boost of publicity and content today from a deal with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation to showcase…

NewsGator Acquires Mac RSS Reader NetNewsWire - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 04 Oct 2005 06:12 PM PST

NewsGator continues its rollups in the RSS space, as expected: it has acquired NetNewsWire, creator of a popular RSS reader for Mac OS X. (The news was first reported by…

New Seattle Incubator Makes RSS Investment - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 29 Sep 2005 12:10 PM PST

Yes, incubators are back again...a new Seattle-based incubator Curious Office Partners, founded in July, is the brainchild of Seattle Sounders soccer team co-owner Adrian Hanauer, and Kelly Smith, founder of…

Feedster Gets Investment From Mitsui; CEO Moving On - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 07 Sep 2005 01:10 PM PST

Feedster, one of the blog and RSS search engines, has received a venture investment from Japanese comglomerate Mitsui & Co., Ltd. The amount of investment was not disclosed. The company…

Inability Of Big Search Engines To Index Blogs Quickly Opens Door To Small Companies - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 07 Sep 2005 06:11 AM PST

With the search world dominated by Google, Yahoo and other major companies, the best way in for other companies is to find a niche and burrow in. A cluster of…

FeedBurner Nearly Triples Staff Since March—To 14 - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 06 Sep 2005 05:10 PM PST

Chicago-based RSS metrics firm FeedBurner gets a valentine from the hometown Sun-Times, which, of course, also has to explain what RSS is given the small numbers of actual subscribers or…

Operating Systems as Content Pushers - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 05 Sep 2005 06:10 PM PST

More and more, OS is becoming a hub of all kinds if widgets pushing content to the users....Decreasing emphasis on the chassis of an OS and focusing more on its…

Google News Adds RSS Feeds - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 09 Aug 2005 09:10 AM PST

What a novel idea…

BlogHer After The Fact - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 08 Aug 2005 12:09 PM PST

One of the reasons for my West Coast trip was an assignment by the Online Journalism Review to cover BlogHer, a first-of-its-kind gathering in Santa Clara focused on bring women…

More on Feedster, AOL - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 01 Aug 2005 02:09 PM PST

Update:I sought out Scott Rafer, president and CEO of Feedster, at BlogHer, hoping for a little more color on the company’s recently announced deal with AOL—now its biggest partner. Still…

MSFT Analyst Day: RSS in New OS - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 28 Jul 2005 07:08 PM PST

At MSFT’s analyst day today, Will Poole, Senior VP of Windows Client gave a bunch of details on how RSS will be integrated within the new OS, Windows Vista: “RSS…

More On AOL RSS; Powered By Feedster - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 28 Jul 2005 06:09 AM PST

It’s a full-tilt embrace of RSS for AOL with one-third of the new web portal’s three-tab approach designed as a personal RSS news reader. In a major coup for Feedster,…

CTAM Summit 05: C-SPAN Adds Podcasts To Multimedia Roster - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 25 Jul 2005 08:09 PM PST

C-SPAN, which has a history of tapping in to new technology, adds podcasts to the variety of ways viewers and listeners can tap into the cluster of public affairs nets.…

Yahoo Buys Desktop App Software Company - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 25 Jul 2005 12:09 AM PST

Yahoo has bought a desktop application software/application company called Konfabulator. The Palo Alto-based 3-person software maker has a small desktop software that can be tweaked to monitor the weather, stock…

RSS Readership Patterns - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 22 Jul 2005 03:09 PM PST

Some interesting readership and click-through data from Pheedo, the RSS advertising vendor: according to data based on the activity on its network of advertisers and publishers: -- Tuesday is the…

Blinkx.tv Adds RSS Options For Users And Sites - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 19 Jul 2005 08:08 AM PST

RSS is ubiquitous enough now not to report here every time someone starts a new feed. Some implementations stand out, though, like today’s announcement from video and audio search engine…